10 must-read plays books like Thérèse Raquin: A Play by Neal Bell

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Thérèse Raquin: A Play

By: Neal Bell

4.05

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Thérèse Raquin tells the story of a young woman, unhappily married to her first cousin by an overbe…

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1. Dr. Faustus

By: Christopher Marlowe

3.80

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor… read more

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"Hell is just a frame of mind."

-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

"Be silent then, for danger is in words."

-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

"Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris."

-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

"He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall."

-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

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2. Dancing at Lughnasa

By: Brian Friel

3.71

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

It is 1936 and harvest time in County Donegal. In a house just outside the village of Ballybeg live… read more

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"Dancing as if language had surrendered to movement - as if this ritual, this wordless ceremony, was now the way to speak, to whisper private and sacred things, to be in touch with some otherness. Dan…"

-Brian Friel, Dancing at Lughnasa

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3. Top Girls

By: Caryl Churchill

3.58

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

Set in the early Thatcher years, Top Girls is a seminal play of the modern theatre, revealing a wor… read more

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Cover of Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, Margaret Mauldon, Malcolm Bowie, Mark Overstall

4. Madame Bovary

By: Gustave Flaubert , Margaret Mauldon , Malcolm Bowie , Mark Overstall

3.70

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

Madame Bovary is the debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. The characte… read more

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"Every notary carries about inside him the debris of a poet."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

"Speech is a rolling-mill that always thins out the sentiment."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

"How oft the warmth of the sun above Makes a pretty young girl dream of love."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

"For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

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5. The Seven Year Itch

By: George Axelrod

3.43

Format: 149 pages, Hardcover

A three-act romantic comedy play by George Axelrod that was made into a film co-written and directe… read more

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"-What would you like to drink? You do drink, don't you? -Oh, sure! I drink like a fish!"

-George Axelrod, The Seven Year Itch

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6. A Midsummer Night’s Dream

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Catherine Belsey

3.95

Format: 298 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Shakespeare's intertwined love polygons begin to get complicated from the start--Demetrius and Lysa… read more

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"My soul is in the sky."

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

"Farewell, sweet playfellow."

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

"Methought I was enamour'd of an ass."

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Cover of Yerma by Federico García Lorca, Gwynne Edwards, Chris Megson

7. Yerma

By: Federico García Lorca , Gwynne Edwards , Chris Megson

3.55

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

Yerma (meaning 'Barren') is one of three tragic plays about peasants and rural life that make up Lo… read more

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8. The Quality of Mercy: Reflections on Shakespeare

By: Peter Brook

4.04

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In The Quality of Mercy, one of the world's most revered theatre directors reflects on a fascinatin… read more

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9. Missing, Presumed (DS Manon, #1)

By: Susie Steiner

4.44

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Mid-December, and Cambridgeshire is blanketed with snow. Detective Sergeant Manon Bradshaw tries to… read more

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10. Arcadia

By: Tom Stoppard

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

Arcadiatakes us back and forth between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, ranging over the nat… read more

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11. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

By: August Wilson

3.00

Format: 282 pages,

The time is 1927. The place is a rundown recording studio in Chicago. Ma Rainey, the legendary blue… read more

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12. A Raisin in the Sun

By: Lorraine Hansberry

4.20

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

"Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black peo… read more

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13. Suddenly Last Summer

By: Tennessee Williams

4.08

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Kerr, in the NY Herald-Tribune, describes: "This, says Mr. Williams through the most sympathetic vo… read more

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14. Persons Unknown (DS Manon, #2)

By: Susie Steiner

5.00

Format: 120 pages,

The sequel to Susie Steiner's bestselling MISSING, PRESUMED Manon has settled back into life in Cam… read more

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15. The Lewis Man (The Lewis Trilogy, #2)

By: Peter May

4.36

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

A body is recovered from a peat bog on the Isle of Lewis. The male Caucasian corpse is initially be… read more

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16. Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches

By: Tony Kushner

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

Pulitzer Prize-winner for Drama, 1993. The first part of Tony Kushner's epic drama of America in th… read more

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17. Toys in the Attic

By: Lillian Hellman

3.50

Format: 200 pages,

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18. The Chessmen (Lewis Trilogy, #3)

By: Peter May

4.03

Format: None pages, Paperback

Fin Macleod, now head of security on a privately owned Lewis estate, is charged with investigating … read more

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19. Luther

By: John Osborne

3.83

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Luther is a play by John James Osborne that explored the forces that were involved in the life of t… read more

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20. Bodas de sangre

By: Federico García Lorca , Juan Caballero , Allen Josephs

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

El tema de esta obra surgio a raiz de una noticia aparecida en prensa: dos amantes se fugan en la v… read more

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21. Stones in His Pockets

By: Marie Jones

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Broadway sensation tells the tragicomedy story of a movie location shoot in Ireland, and the de… read more

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22. Wandering Stars

By: Tommy Orange

3.89

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more

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"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"

-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

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23. Table for Two

By: Amor Towles

4.26

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility, a… read more

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"And though she couldn’t remember the exact reference and whether it was from mythology or the Bible, she knew instinctively as they approached the pier’s limit she mustn’t look back."

-Amor Towles, Table for Two

"It is a funny aspect of life, thought Charlie, how a group of grown people can convince themselves to do something that none of them really want to do. They start by talking an idea into existence. O…"

-Amor Towles, Table for Two

Cover of Remain Silent (DS Manon Bradshaw, #3) by Susie Steiner

24. Remain Silent (DS Manon Bradshaw, #3)

By: Susie Steiner

3.80

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An immigrant's mysterious death sets off a chilling hunt for the truth--a gripping crime novel from… read more

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"I hate positive thinking. Just a way of bullying people, making them feel the bad stuff is their fault."

-Susie Steiner, Remain Silent (DS Manon Bradshaw, #3)

"Her [journalist] father always told his trainees: If one side says it's raining and the other says it's dry, it's not your job to quote both. It's your job to look out of the window and find out the …"

-Susie Steiner, Remain Silent (DS Manon Bradshaw, #3)

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25. The Moors

By: Jen Silverman

4.26

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

Two sisters and a dog live out their lives on the bleak English moors, dreaming of love and power. … read more

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26. Free Billy

By: Don Winslow

3.62

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

Billy has figured it out. How to live free. That’s "free" as in "it costs no money" at hotel … read more

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Cover of Maigret and the Nahour Case (Maigret Series of Mysteries) by Georges Simenon

27. Maigret and the Nahour Case (Maigret Series of Mysteries)

By: Georges Simenon

3.86

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

When Maigret receives an urgent call from his friend Dr. Pardon he responds immediately, despite th… read more

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28. Wolf at the Door

By: Marisela Treviño Orta

4.38

Format: 60 pages, Paperback

Isadora finds the strength to stand up to her abusive husband Septimo when he forces the very pregn… read more

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29. The River Bride

By: Marisela Treviño Orta

4.27

Format: 58 pages, Paperback

Three days before a wedding, a handsome and mysterious man is fished from the Amazon River. Set onc… read more

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30. Thérèse Raquin: A Play

By: Neal Bell

4.05

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Thérèse Raquin tells the story of a young woman, unhappily married to her first cousin by an overbe… read more

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3.96

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3.74

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Umberto Eco , Luigi Natoli , Rosario La Duca

4.00

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